{"id":89,"date":"2006-09-22T11:18:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T16:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=89"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:56:30","slug":"mystery-train-images-of-america-in-rock-n-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock-n-Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0142181587\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0142181587&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=readingwith0a-20&#038;linkId=9676caab0fc56cf8d07486b0f86afb0a\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61F9ZpuL2JL._SL1200_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61F9ZpuL2JL._SL1200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61F9ZpuL2JL._SL1200_-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61F9ZpuL2JL._SL1200_-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61F9ZpuL2JL._SL1200_.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Greil Marcus (1975)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>More than 20 years after its initial publication, <i>Mystery Train<\/i> remains one of the smartest, most provocative books ever written about rock-and-roll. Marcus puts his subjects&#8211;which include Robert Johnson, Elvis Presley, The Band, Randy Newman, and Sly Stone&#8211;into their proper context, which is the culture-at-large. He makes you understand why these musicians matter, and what they&#8217;ve contributed to the American imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greil Marcus (1975) More than 20 years after its initial publication, Mystery Train remains one of the smartest, most provocative books ever written about rock-and-roll. Marcus puts his subjects&#8211;which include Robert Johnson, Elvis Presley, The Band, Randy Newman, and Sly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=89\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-history","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}